> > On Tue, 4 Nov 1997, Sam Ockman wrote: > > > I need to take the diff of two directories recursively, but am not just > > interested in what files are different...I'm also interested in if the dates > > of the files are different, the uids, the gids, and the permissions. Anyone > > know of a program to tell me all of this? > > One solution that crossed my mind: > > You could tar one of the dirs and let tar compare the contents of the .tar > file with the other dir. > > I know this is not a very good solution, but I couldn't think of a better > one. >
What about > cd dir1 > ls -lR > ~/dir1.lst > cd dir2 > ls -lR > ~/dir2.lst > cd > diff dir1.lst dir2.lst I'll leave it as an exercise to the reader to make a nice bash script out of this idea, which I hereby donate to the free software community :). Eric -- E.L. Meijer ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) | tel. office +31 40 2472189 Eindhoven Univ. of Technology | tel. lab. +31 40 2475032 Lab. for Catalysis and Inorg. Chem. (TAK) | tel. fax +31 40 2455054 -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
